San Diego has several events to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday? - Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation ...